SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Introducing the Morning Star Women's Readers & Supporters Group
KATE RAMSDEN explains why Scottish women decided to set up a women's RSG and invites all sisters to attend its next webinar on Tuesday
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
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LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
THE seeds of the Morning Star Women’s Readers and Supporters Group (RSG) began to germinate at the Scottish Trade Union (STUC) Congress in 2022 in Aberdeen. Specifically at the Morning Star fringe. I was chairing and we had two great women speakers on the panel.
It was well attended and lively. Lots of questions and discussion. However, it was noticeable that audience consisted almost entirely of men. In fact there was only one woman. By then I was a member of the Morning Star Scotland Readers and Supporters Group (RSG) and when I thought about it, I realised that it was predominantly male too.
These men, young and not so... are excellent comrades who were and who remain totally supportive of women’s issues. They made us feel welcome in their company. However the subject matter of the Readers and Supporters and the Our Class, Our Culture events was often of greater interest to men than to women and it was noticeable that men attended in greater numbers.
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